Understanding The Attributes Being Measured - Agilent Technologies 86038A User Manual

Understanding the Attributes Being Measured

Measurement Concepts
Understanding the Attributes
Being Measured
The 86038A optical dispersion analyzer allows you to measure the
following attributes:
• Gain/Loss
• Group Delay (GD)
• Chromatic Dispersion (CD)
• Differential Group Delay (DGD)
• Polarization Dependant Loss (PDL)
• Length
This section will define each of these measurement attributes and provide
some information of the mechanism that produce the effects.
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